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Comcast tests letting Florida customers pay an extra $30 per month to avoid 300GB data cap — New Comcast innovation: A $30 charge to eliminate your data cap — Florida data cap trial limits users to 300GB unless they pay extra each month. — Comcast has unveiled a new $30 charge …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iPhone 6s to have ‘3D Touch’ three-level, next-gen Force Touch interface — One of the cornerstone features of the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, to be announced next Wednesday, is a screen based on the Force Touch technology from the latest MacBook trackpads and the Apple Watch.
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| Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Hachette, HarperCollins Publishers, and Simon & Schuster report declining revenues on ebooks after winning the right to set prices in deal with Amazon — E-Book Sales Fall After New Amazon Contracts — E-book revenue is falling, and some people in the publishing industry say it is partly …
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Facebook begins testing new, content-heavy, immersive mobile ad format — Facebook Is Testing Its Fancy New Mobile Ads — Facebook is testing a new, content-heavy mobile ad that wraps a lot of the company's existing ad formats like image carousels and autoplay video into one product.| Yusuf Ozuysal / Chromium Blog: |
Latest Chrome for Android brings “custom tabs”, a faster alternative to WebView for apps — Chrome custom tabs smooth the transition between apps and the web — Android app developers face a difficult tradeoff when it comes to showing web content in their Android app.
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The Next Web, BetaNews, PC Magazine, 9to5Google, NDTV Gadgets and Android Police
| Luke Johnson / Digital Spy: |
Samsung looking to open Gear S2 to iOS after adding support for non-Samsung Android devices — Exclusive: Move over Android Wear, Samsung has confirmed it's looking at Gear S2 iPhone support — Run an iPhone 6 but covet the new Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch?
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| David Kravets / Ars Technica: |
Man arrested for parodying mayor on Twitter gets $125K in civil lawsuit — Mayor concerned about being portrayed as drug abuser who hangs with prostitutes. — An Illinois man arrested when his residence was raided for parodying his town's mayor on Twitter is settling a civil rights lawsuit with the city of Peoria for $125,000.
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| Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Microsoft weighing multibillion-dollar revamp of Seattle campus to add more open work spaces — Microsoft Said to Weigh Multibillion-Dollar Headquarters Revamp — Skidmore, Owings & Merrill hired to design campus overhaul — Plan could create more open offices and add amenities
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft phasing out support for Lumia camera-related apps on Windows Phone 8.1 — Microsoft is dropping support and updates for a number of Lumia camera-related apps on Windows Phone 8.1 devices in preparation for the consolidated Windows 10 Camera and Photo apps.
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Conversations, SuperSite for Windows and PCWorld
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Announcing General Availability of Google Compute Engine Autoscaler and 32 core VMs — Our customers have a wide range of compute needs, from temporary batch processing to high-scale web workloads. Google Cloud Platform provides a resilient compute platform for workloads of all sizes enabling … | Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Etsy's Pulling The Plug On Grand St. At The End Of This Month — When Etsy bought Grand St. last April, the plan was to let Grand St. continue to operate its maker marketplace for tech hardware. But that's about to change. At the end of this month, Grand St. will stop processing orders and on October 1 … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Baidu's Student Q&A App Zuoyebang Lands Investment From Sequoia and Legend Capital — Baidu, China's largest search engine and an investor in Uber, is giving its Zuoyebang ‘after school’ service, which helps school students with their studies, wings of its own after it revealed … Sponsor Posts
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